Supervisor peskin could you please call the next item . Item two, an information item citizens advisory report. Good morning chair peskin and vice chair tang and members of the Transportation Authority. I will be presenting the report today. Starting with item five on the agenda, approval for allocation of appropriation of propk funds, but there were concerns about the lack of lighting on bayshore, cesar chavez, potreto and if the project budget could be increased. There was discussion about the muni tracks that fit the market being in Poor Condition and the bart grades presenting a hazard as well that inquires course coordination with bart to remedy. With regard to item 6, the approval of the expenditure for clean air program, in particular appreciate the c02 reduction even though its not criteria for the chief sca. A major item of discussion related to an item that may be coming before you at your upcoming february 27th meeting, the quint gerald connection road. There was concern over the lack of communication of the Pacific Railway right of way land to be the proposed road in the bayview. It was observed that the buyer of the property, trans metro, providing Shuttle Bus Services is not acting as a good civic partner but perhaps taking advantage of opportunity and bad faith on the part of the railroad to secure land designated by the project and is in position to receive a better situated parcel in exchange. A realern and was raised by other lands identified. Potentially benefitting in the same way at the publics expense. A feeling was expressed that if it werent in the bayview neighborhood, this purchase would have gotten more attention and action and now the berm blocking the street will result in a final price tag to reconnect quint street which will be more than the long bridge for the train station not originally pursued because of the higher cost but that kept the street intact. Aut as a possible solution, the board of supervisors with imminent domain. A thorough fair connecting the community. The cac requested regular updates on the issue. Lastly, a report was heard about Transportation Network companies in california and nationwide. The cac echoed chief peskins concern that cal puc is not sharing information on fees and observed that the cpuc fees imposed were too low and if necessary to pursue legislation to allow local entities to levy fees as the communities most directed impacted by the vehicles. That concludes my report. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you mr. Larson and congratulations on becoming the chair of the cac. Any Public Comment on item 2 . Good morning commissioners. Im the district 10 representative on the cac. I would like to thank mr. Larson for his extensive rundown of the bridge comments that were made at our meeting. I look forward to two weeks from now at the Board Meeting and i would like to thank my constituents in district 10 and everybody on the board of cac for the last four years as chair. I dont step down lightly. I recently got a new job that requires i travel a lot, so took the took myself off of the election last month. And im extremely happy to see chair larson taking over. His the way he described the quint street bridge problem was far less emotional than the way i did at our cac meeting. The bridge replacement was the reason i applied for that position. It is it was a vital connecter from the bayview to other parts of the city and without it, and in the future without the phelp street, gerald, evans, plus all the new people moving in to the neighborhood, removing access for people in our Community Just irks me to no end and im restraining myself. So, again, i look forward to two weeks from now, and hearing what the ta staff bring to you. I hope that you bring some tough questions for them as to why its going to be double the cost of what it could have been with or not. We may not see it at all and lose access. I hope to learn a lot that day. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you for your four years of services as chair of the cac. Chair peskin and vice chair tang, members of the authority, im a member of the cac and i wanted to echo the comments you have heard and having served on the cac for a long time, i dont remember too many issues that had so much discussion and concern. So i hope that you take these comments seriously. Thank you. Supervisor peskin thank you peter. Any other members of the public for item 2, please come forward. Im a resident of bayview hunters point. I wasnt here for this but hearing chris over here, its something not just he has been concerned about for years. When the caltran project first came up, one of the consistent issues we hear over and over again in the neighborhood is that the bayview is isolated from the rest of the city through the citys own infrastructure decisions. Here we go with members of the public pushing hard to make sure this necessary Infrastructure Improvement didnt further seal our neighborhood off. We were made promises, a lot of happy talk would be the best way of putting it. When rubber hits the road, we end up with this sort of, what can we do. Its going to cost a lot more. This is a recuring pattern and something as Decision Makers and the people who run the agency and run so much of the city, you need to make sure the staff cant get away with this. Thank you very much. Supervisor peskin we are focused on it and have been having a number of conversations and youll see some progress here in the not too distant future. Seeing no other Public Comment on item 2, Public Comment is closed. Can you read the next item . Clerk approve the minutes of the january 23rd meeting. Supervisor peskin is there a motion to approve the minutes. Made by commissioner ronen and seconded by commissioner sheehy. We take it without objection. Roll call, okay, fine. On the agenda roll call, please. roll call supervisor peskin next item please. Clerk appoint one member to the citizens Advisory Committee. This is an action item. The Transportation Authority has an 11member Advisory Committee with each member serving a two year term. Transportation authority nor the cac make recommendations on appointments. To qualify, the applicants must be San Francisco residents and appear before the board at least once, the list of 46 applicants for the vacant position and details are in the enclosure. The vacancy is the result of the term explanation of peter tannen, seeking reappointment and is here today if you want to hear from him. Supervisor peskin mr. Tannen and then if there are other applicants, please come forward. Im peter tannen, i serve on the cac. I worked for mta parking and traffic for 20 years and someone who is always on my bicycle and muni and support complete streets and i think with my experience i have a lot of experience serving on the cac and understanding the current issues. If you have questions im happy to answer them. Supervisor peskin thank you. Any other applicants for the seat . Seeing none, well general Public Comment on the item . Seeing none, closing Public Comment. Is there a motion . Commissioner sheehy. Supervisor sheehy i move to reappoint mr. Tannen. Supervisor peskin and seconded by commissioner ronen, you are back on the cac, congratulations and thank you for your many years of service to the city and cac. Next item please. Clerk allocation of 5,806,422 in prop k and an action item. Supervisor peskin and if you want to address the issues with the lighting on the hair ball and fifth and market tracks. The project manager from public works will come up after my presentation if its all right. So the first request would help initiate replacement of 30 foot buses to issue a request for proposals, evaluate bids and negotiate a contract with the manufacturers, the oldest hybrid buses in the fleet and replacing will help with costs. The full cost of procuring them is 43 million. The funding plan is under development by sfmt a to be completed in april this year. They have about 19. 5 million in bridge toll funds identify and expects to fund the remaining with additional arm to propk of possibly Senate Bill One funds or sfmta funds. The buses are expected to be in Service Starting june 2020. The track replacement, federal funds to rehab at 15 locations and replace track at five locations as part of ongoing muni rail state of good repair program. Construction work on the earlier locations can start and later locations are being designed. The rehab work would be done by sfmta. There will be no Service Impacts for the rehab work, the track crews can perform the work between trains but there will be detours for vehicular traffic. And they will need to provide bus bridges during construction and car traffic detours required. It will be done under contract. Next is the alemany interchange phase 2. You may remember seeing a presentation in spring of 2017. This request is for district nine Neighborhood Transportation Improvement Program for recommendations from the study, including a shared use path for bicycles and pedestrians that connects the Farmers Market. It would feature crossings and sidewalk improvements and fully fund the design phase of the work. The construction phase is currently unfunded however, moving forward with design will make the project a stronger candidate for funding such as the state active transportation program. If Construction Funds are identified, it could be open for use in spring 2020. Phase 1 that was funded separately has a buffered bike lane and other improvements and expected to go into construction later this spring. Next we worked with commissioner tangs office to bring improvements to the lower great highway as soon as possible. Planning to evaluate day lighting at intersections and informal trails, painting safety zones with illegal parking is an issue and other safety improvements to have the proposed improvements ready to present in april. After the meeting and based on the feedback, sfmta would work on medians, speed humps and angled traffic that could calm traffic and presented to the public and be implemented by spring 2019. Next, the hairball improvements, this request is for district nine and 10 and Capital Funds used to improve make improvements, recommended in an earlier funded study at bayshore boulevard, cesar chavez and potreto. The area between the gas station at cesar chavez and hampshire and the bridge to southbound bayshore boulevard designed for the segments known in the study f and g is complete and public works is working to obtain necessary permits from caltrans. I can take questions and we have public works here. Per commissioner yee. Supervisor yee thank you. My question is around the twin peek tunnel project that has been delayed at least a year. And basically this is the tunnel itself is celebrating their 100th Year Anniversary and from Budgeting Program my office in partnership with the sfmta is working to put a Community Event together. Im wondering, has notice gone out to the community about the delay and originally we thought the work was going to be done this summer and second part of that question, whats causing the delay itself . Is mta here . Lets see if dylan young is able to respond. There have been several hiccups with the contract for this process. Sfmta has awarded a new contract that would allow for construction to begin soon. Ill let dylan speak. I know theres an abbreviated schedule than what was originally anticipated in the other contracts that have not been executed or were cancelled, one of them was. Ill let dylan elaborate. Thank you. Through the chair, dylan young to commissioner yee, thank you for Deputy Director laforts introduction. Our project manager is not here at the moment, id be glad to follow up on the information provided to you afterwards. Supervisor yee can we make sure theres notice to the community about the delay. Absolutely. Thank you for the opportunity to provide more information. Supervisor peskin a frustrating pattern. All right. From public works with regard to the lighting and tracks. Good morning commissioners. Im project manager of public works. In terms of the lighting in the hairball, the cesar chavez east plan identified 15 segments in the hairball, segments a through o and during the planning phases, public works electrical engineers did a site inventory of the lighting of all 15 segments as part of the design for segments f and g, we looked at the evaluation and determined the lighting was adequate, although it could use upgrade. Our segments f and g have three existing lights, two are adjacent one is pointing directly on the path, one is an existing roadway light and two stairway lights that are where the end of segments f and g end. We determined that the lighting was adequate and overall photo metric analysis and study for the entire lighting in the hairball should be evaluated and it would cost about 1. 5 million with construction costs. As part of our project, we decided not to move forward with lighting upgrades and just focus on the path improvements. Supervisor peskin commissioner tang. Supervisor tang this is a different topic supervisor peskin commissioner ronen. Supervisor ronen thank you. What goes into determining what lighting is adequate. This is heavily used by commuters. And this is an area that i have received countless, countless reports from people that they do not feel safe walking or biking through there in the dark. Often times they dont feel safe during the daytime. So what goes into your analysis about whether or not the lighting is adequate . During the planning phase, the evaluation noted every existing light within all 15 segments and determined there were areas that needed improvement. The next step is do an analysis and calculations, they look at the lights and map them out and see the lighting levels throughout the entire hairball and what is specifically needed in each supervisor ronen i understand that. But you said you analyzed f and g and determined the lighting is adequate. Did you walk through at night how do you decide whether or not lighting is adequate . That was basically just like you said, walk through at night and look at the existing levels and did kind of an evaluation from that. Supervisor ronen so im not satisfied with this determination. So i would like to walk with you. Sure. Supervisor ronen at night and look at the different segments of the bridge. Maybe this is something supervisor conen would be interested in doing together and we can look and see, from what i hear from my constituents, the lighting is not adequate and this should be a priority. Ill make sure and go ahead and reach out should i reach out to you to schedule that . Thats fine. Supervisor ronen thank you. Field trip. Supervisor peskin all right. Commissioner tang. Supervisor tang this is about the track replacements. Supervisor peskin maybe thats dylan. Thats mta. Supervisor tang i wanted the timeline for three intersections, as well as proposed at tarabell and judah at 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th. If you could email me the schedule that would be great. Absolutely. Supervisor tang thank you. Supervisor peskin if you have more information responsive to that now, feel free to come forward. Im a project manager for the project. Right now the intersections we have listed are as mentioned the funding request could be changed to other priorities but our plan is to start once we receive the funding, initiate the planning and design phase and further refine the location and planning the sequence out. So, well definitely get a schedule, it will be high level at this time. Supervisor peskin okay. Supervisor tang thank you. I just want to make sure we know so we can best communicate timing to residents given the impacts. Youre correct, thats part of the outreach plan, well reach out to all affected parties and thats why you notice that the construction schedule, the hours, were trying to minimize impacts during construction also. Supervisor tang i dont know if i wouldnt have known about the project if i wasnt at ta. I apologize for that. Supervisor peskin commissioner yee. Supervisor yee i would like to know when the tracks are being replaced. It may cause delay and have to respond to my constituents. Supervisor peskin so note roger that commissioner tang and yee want to be kept in the loop. Any Public Comment on item five . There you go. Chair peskin, members of the authority, i am here specifically to talk about the first item on that list, the request to issue the rfp for the bus replacement. Recently ive started im here with the San FranciscoElectrical Construction industry and working with a bunch of folks around the state, around what the Resources Board is doing in trying to move forward a zero emission bus or decarb decarbonize our transit across the state. I think were beyond where the state is trying to get other agencies to go, we still have a long way to go. One of the things that i think is concerning about this procurement is that while its technically going to be technology neutral. The mta really doesnt have the capacity to evaluate electric bus proposal. They have submitted grant pro proposals to the federal Transportation Administration and local or regional grant making bodies looking for 10. 5 million Pilot Project to run the project to study how electric buses would work within our citys environment. Mta staff weve repeatedly heard are really not excited about electric buses and have been saying the same thing about it, they wont work in San Francisco. We cant actually answer that question without a legitimate pilot. And mta has committed funds of its own and looking for other Funding Sources. I think frankly we need to move forward with the